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Trains crowding is not ‘dangerous’

Phil Rowe, Hitchin
27 November 2009
 

I am enjoying the refreshing approach in your publication, New Transit. The piece by Stephen Hammond was interesting in several ways - but I was most shocked to read he believes that “trains are often dangerously overcrowded”. Coming from someone who presumably hopes to be minister for transport after the next election, this is a very irresponsible statement.

If Britain’s trains are often dangerously overcrowded, then our motorway network is a hazard of catastrophic...

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